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having autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease) is so fucking annoying not because I have to take meds for the rest of my life but purely because of how everyone thinks it can be cured by diet changes, exercise, and stress management

no I can't fucking fix it with an Instagram scammers diet sheet, I don't have enough functional thyroid tissue left to even fucking fix

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42 days until my exams start and I feel like I am pouring water into a colander with how much information is actually staying inside my brain.

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Time for another appreciation post for sarcomas because I came across a mother of one the other day:

1 - a relatively normal cancer cell with a prominent nucleolus (dark dot in the middle of the slightly lighter oval)

2 - a cancer cell showing an increased cell size and a large nucleolus

3 - a cancer cell who decided to become a beast with significant karyomegaly and a huge nucleolus

1 - a relatively normal cancer cell

2 - a super large beast with four nucleoli

1 - a normal sized cancer cell

2 - a cancer cell with two large nuclei of varying sizes (so a binucleated cell with karyomegaly)

3 - a cancer cell with karyomegaly and a large nucleolus

4 - me on an average monday

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I made an off-hand joke about having adhd in front of a student at work the other day and she replied "well now that's a fun fact!" and now i am never going to speak to a student again

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I cannot believe I didn't post this one here! Drawn last year, the biggest page of my fish anatomy and histology atlas.

Technically, transverse sections are more useful for looking at symmetry, so you can see if something is bilateral, but sagittal sections are just so cute! I love seeing a whole fish on a slide.

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Soft tissue sarcomas are my favourite group of neoplasms based on their appearance, and this one was extra special as it was a primary sarcoma of the liver in a dog (a rare occurrence) alongside an extensive hepatocellular carcinoma.

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I've just realised I don't actually have an oral examination for my pathology membership exams and I am RELIEVED

My aural processing speed and brain-to-mouth delay would've been the death of me.

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Sometimes adhd is like using a reminder app where you set a reminder to do or remember something but then when you save the reminder it just disappears and you can't see or edit it again until it goes off at a randomly appointed time in the future

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Typing "bitch pants" into google is a new experience for me as a veterinarian and owner of a newly incontinent female dog

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Behold, the reason I haven't been able to study today.

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What camera or phone did you use to take Doquaio’s pictures?

Oh what a cool question!

I have a little Canon EOS 1500D DSLR camera that I play around with sometimes. Mostly just for taking pictures of the dogs because they never stop moving and my phone's shutter speed isn't fast enough.

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sometimes I have moments where I remember humans are just glorified primates and I'll be standing in the middle of a music concert where thousands of modernised apes are screaming at another evolved primate who is singing and dancing and I stop being able to participate in reality for a little while

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Found this absolute monster of a (suspected) dermal melanocyte in the middle of a chromatophoroma in a bearded dragon.

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You know what I hate about the internet? Sometimes people will just lazily slap a “citation” on an infographic and trust that they’ll be completely taken at their word and nobody is going to dig deeper. And it works all the time. As an example, please look at this photo someone posted to dispute my assertion that garlic can be toxic to dogs.

Okay well, kind of a pain to manually type in that link but obviously I am going to look into this study that is confident enough to recommend people feeding their dogs garlic. So here’s the article, kind of a weird journal choice for this graphic to reference from but looks like a legit (though 20 year old) study

Funny thing is, almost immediately this article acknowledges that garlic can indeed be toxic to dogs. The health benefits mentioned in the graphic are referring to human health, not canine. This section is literally in the introduction of the article and one of the first things you read. Emphasis here is mine.

Crazy to me that someone would imply that this article encourages giving dogs garlic when it in fact immediately asserts that doing so has the potential to cause hemolytic anemia. The article does explore the anti-thrombotic effects of garlic components in dogs and humans, but by no means does it say that “contrary to misconceptions garlic is safe for pets”. It is dishonest to assert this in an infographic. However the creator of the image correctly assumed nobody would check, because the person who posted it took it as fact without further investigation.

I am begging you to be skeptical. Check your sources. Check their sources. Check my sources. Learn how to dig deeper and exercise that muscle as much as you can, especially on the internet. You will be absolutely shocked how much misinformation is casually stated and received as pure fact.

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In the big scheme of things I have been busy with research, study, and work but last weekend I got to take my pups to the off-leash beach and we met up with Doquaio's brother!

Doquaio is almost 5 months old now and is almost as tall as my American Staffordshire terrier, but she at least still has the advantage of weight and seniority over him. I've never had a large breed dog before and the sheer amount of food he inhales is phenomenal, since he was 10 weeks old his average weekly weight gain has been around 1 kg a week.

They were both fantastic at the beach and met a lot of friendly dogs, jumped around in the surf, and got sand absolutely everywhere. For a bit of a socially nervous puppy, Doquaio made sure to at least meet other dogs before coming back to me for safety while Jax engaged them in play.

As for work/study; I have just over two months until I sit my ANZCVS membership examinations in pathology so my posts may be sporadic and involve a lot of complaining for a little while. Considering my future employment as a veterinary pathologist relies on passing this exam, I am quite stressed!

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My theory is tumblr is like the OG TikTok for autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent folk and the pathology sector appears to attract people with alarmingly similar, quirky qualities.

I've been on tumblr since I was 14 years old and remain on here heading into my 28th year on earth, 3rd year into my veterinary pathology traineeship, and 2nd year of being diagnosed with ADHD. It's the only site I have ever felt like I have space for my voice.

There should be a study on why there's so many veterinary pathologists on tumblr.

Like what came first, the tumblr or path?

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The amount of times I had to go to the clinic alone, at night, or out to a stranger's property alone without any safety tracking or communication devices was astounding.

Vets risk themselves at every point in doing their job.

Listen, if you haven���t been told before, let me be the first one to tell you:

If you are working in a vet clinic alone, all by yourself, you lock the damn door.

This is especially important if you’re young and female but should apply to everybody.

It does not matter if you’re just about to open and another staff member will be there ‘soon’. It does not matter if you are expecting a client any minute now. It does not matter if it is the middle of the day because the vet is on a house call.

You are sitting, by yourself, in a building full of cash and drugs. You lock the damn door.

You can sit yourself down somewhere that you can see the door and be selective about who you let in, but otherwise you lock the damn door.

You do not want to find yourself in a FNAF situation trying to avoid the person with ill intent who walked in looking for drugs while you were out the back, or hanging up washing. You don’t want to look up after feeding a cat to realise somebody followed you in when they saw only one car in the car park.

Just lock the door.